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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






2. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






3. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






4. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






5. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






6. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






7. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






8. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






9. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






10. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






11. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






12. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






13. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






14. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






15. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






16. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






17. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






18. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






19. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






20. The time and place of a story or play.






21. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






22. A short saying with a moral.






23. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






24. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






25. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






26. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






27. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






28. What a story or play is about.






29. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






30. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






31. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






32. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.






33. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






34. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






35. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






36. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






37. A strong pause within a line.






38. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






39. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






40. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






41. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






42. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






43. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






44. The organizational form of a literary work.






45. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






46. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






47. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






48. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






49. A four line stanza in a poem.






50. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.